[Prognosis of the outcome of macrofocal myocardial infarct with the aid of the recognition program].

Methods used in solving the problem of prognosing favourable or unfavourable outcomes of a transmural (or macrofocal) myocardial infarction, based on the data covering the first 3 days of the hospital stay for patients admitted to it not later than 2 days after the onset of myocardial infarction and who did not develop during this period extremely serious complications, are described. The prognosis covered the entire period of the institutional treatment of the patients. The data underwent computer processing. The obtained solution rule was checked on 178 patients. In 143 of them the machine prognosis proved favourable with only 2 of these patients having met a sudden death. The forecast turned out unfavourable in 35 cases and 16 of these patients died. The machine made prognosis is of a great help in pronouncing medical judgments.